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the level of the surface of the liquid a ring of pimples arose, 
developing later into a number of small ulcers. 
A male bud, 12,5 cM. across. Twenty four bracts. The disc 
carries 21 processus without hairs. The anthers are well deve- 
loped. Around the base of the column 2 rings are distinctly 
visible, the: under one less pronounced than the upper one. The 
diaphragm carries on its’ underside the white spots, arranged 
in 3 circles. The inner side of the perigoneal tube is crowded 
with partly mushroomfashioned, partly cauliflower shaped ra- 
menta, which towards the base of the diaphragm show a gra- 
dual transition into the white patches. 
A female bud, 15 cM. across, shows: Four small scales from 
the margin of the cupula. Nineteen soft bracts. Fifty-five pro- 
cessus disci, 5. of which are sickly and moist at their tops and 
leave wet, black traces on the underside of the diaphragm. — 
About this time the development of the bud becomes much 
expedited, and the more so, as maturity approaches. The smal- 
lest buds one can watch for a month or longer without being 
able to establish any increase in volume, but one of the buds 
observed by me, whose diameter was 18,5 cM. increased this 
dimension by 2,5 cM. during a fortnight, and a specimen, that 
on 11th March had a diameter of 22 cM. was after 10 days 
25 cM. and after a further 4 days 29 cM., thus during this last 
period increasing its diameter by 1 cM. a day. Again a certain 
bud measured 32 cM. in one direction and 23 in the opposite 
one, and the next day the corresponding measurements were 
34 and 27 eM. 
When the bud has reached a diameter of 17 to 20 cM. the 
bracteae will no longer be able to follow the growth of the 
vault of the flower, and part of the perigoneal surface begins 
to show between them at the top of the bud. After removal 
of the bracts we find the perigoneal body at the base white 
whit a yellow tinge, that above the equator of the bud mingles 
with. an increasing amount of rosy colour, whereas the top 
possesses a deep red colour, with a shade of blue, covered with 
innumerable white stains of the size of pins head. 
The ground colour of the top reminds one vividly of that of 
